RABID STRIKERS

Northern Advocate, 15 June 1931, Page 5

RABID STRIKERS

MOB ATTACKS POLICE. FUSILLADE OE STONES. (Received 0 a.m.) PARIS, Juno 13. A message from Roubaix states that grave disorders resulted from the police prohibiting a demonstration, by textile trade strikers, who began to molest isolated policemen. When tho police were reinforced 800 men and women armed with sharp stones attacked them with a terrific hail of stones. The police retired with blood running down the faces of many of them. Finally the police and troops were withdrawn! and posted a cordon round tho district, not permitting any ono to enter it. FURTHER OUTBREAK. FORTY ARRESTS. (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, June 14. There as a recrudescence of the xiotIng when 300 Communists, whom flie police had prevented from demonstrating, reassembled in another part of the city, where they smashed street lamps and looted shop windows of their contents. They barricaded the streets and stoned the firemen who attempted to destroy the barricades. Later the Communists wrecked motor showrooms and dragged tho cars into the streets, whore the vehicles were set on fire. The cavalry, on arriving to disperse the mob, received a shower of missiles, which injured throe. The rioting continued until dawn. Forty arrests have been made.